IN his second talk Mr. Cole describes the England of the period of Tom Paine and Burke, and the effects of the world-wide revolu. tionary ferment as exemplified in the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. He explains the development of the revolutionary movement in England, the controversy between Paine and Burke, and goes on to deal with the great war against revolutionary France, and the social effects produced in this country when peace at last returned after Waterloo.